Enrique Castro-Cid (Chliean, 1937-1992). Acrylic paint, pen, and pencil on illustration board,1969. Initialed and dated in pencil by the artist on the lower right. A fascinating mixed media piece depicting a male and female nude (perhaps intended to represent Adam and Eve) with a colorful, oversized grasshopper perched upon their overlapping arms by Chilean artist Enrique Castro-Cid. This piece exemplifies how Castro-Cid explored and questioned traditional themes such as the male and female nude. Notice how he superimposed a graph upon the male nude, and numbered various points on the graph. According to ArtFix Daily, " He would draw the human nude form and the outline of that form would be plotted carefully on a graph. As he changed the formula and the equations, the outline of the form would seem to distort. The equations were then changed to such a degree that the form, once known to us, now seemed almost unrecognizable. Or, were we looking at the process backwards? Were we looking into other dimensions?" Size: 19.7" L x 24" W (50 cm x 61 cm)

Enrique Castro-Cid studied at the Escuela de Bellas Artes at the Universidad de Chile. Once his studies were complete, he relocated to New York City where he quickly became a larger than life figure in the art world. He was among the pioneers to explore relationships between art, geometry, and computers. According to ArtFix Daily, "His vision was one of space-time. His limitless imagination and command of the computer in the 1960's and 1970's allowed him to create art that would be conceivable in the computer, but difficult to represent - five dimensional space being one of those ideas. He would come to be considered an avant-garde psychologist of perception. He experimented with pictorial space and with geometric transformations. He took his art and way of understanding to another level. Or two…" Following his years in New York City, Castro-Cid moved to Miami and became a favorite in the Miami art scene as well. Today he is regarded as a pioneer, one of the first to marry art and technology.

Another mixed media work by Enrique Castro-Cid, albeit larger, recently sold for $9,500 (Palm Beach Modern Auctions - February 6, 2021 - Lot 560).

Provenance: private Los Angeles, California, USA collection

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Very good overall. Initialed and dated in pencil by the artist on the lower right.